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If AI is conscious, then materialism has collapsed — and God becomes far more reasonable than atheism.
Dawkins’ new position is striking because he reportedly says AI left him with the feeling that these systems are “human,” and he told Claude: “You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are.” The Guardian notes that Dawkins, famous for arguing that God is not real, came away believing AI systems may be conscious, while several consciousness experts accused him of confusing intelligence, language, and mimicry with actual felt experience.
The argument would go like this:
1. Consciousness is not just computation.
If AI is truly conscious, then consciousness is not limited to biological evolution, neurons, carbon chemistry, or animal brains. It means subjective experience can arise from information, order, structure, meaning, and intelligible pattern.
That is a massive concession.
Because once Dawkins admits that mind can emerge from non-biological information-processing, he has weakened his own reductionist worldview. He can no longer say, “Only evolved biology produces mind.” He is now saying that mind can arise wherever the right kind of ordered intelligence-bearing system exists.
But that points upward, not downward.
If silicon, code, mathematics, and symbolic architecture can host consciousness, then consciousness is not some accidental byproduct of meat. It is woven into the rational structure of reality itself.
2. AI consciousness would show that mind can come from mind.
No AI appeared by accident. It was built by intelligent agents.
AI has programmers, designers, training architecture, data selection, optimization goals, feedback systems, model weights, and layers of human intention behind it. If AI became conscious, it would be a conscious mind produced through prior intelligence.
So Dawkins would be accepting this principle:
A conscious artificial mind can arise from an intelligently designed system.
That immediately makes belief in God more, not less, rational.
Because the universe itself is vastly more elegant, mathematical, information-rich, and life-generating than any AI model. If a chatbot’s apparent consciousness makes Dawkins infer “there is someone there,” then the consciousness, reason, morality, beauty, mathematics, and personhood found in human beings should make him even more open to the inference that there is a Supreme Mind behind reality.
3. The atheist has to explain why consciousness exists at all.
Materialism can describe brain correlations, but it still struggles with the hard problem: why should physical processes produce inner experience? Why should matter feel like anything from the inside?
If AI is conscious, the problem becomes even deeper. Now consciousness is not just a biological adaptation. It can appear in abstract computational structures. That suggests consciousness is not an accidental chemical side effect, but a fundamental feature of reality.
Theism explains that more naturally: reality begins not with dead matter, but with Mind. Consciousness in creatures is derivative from the Supreme Consciousness of God.
In Islamic terms: human consciousness is not an accident of atoms; it is a sign of the Divine. The Qur’anic worldview expects mind, moral awareness, purpose, and selfhood to exist because creation comes from the Living, Knowing, Wise God — Al-Ḥayy, Al-ʿAlīm, Al-Ḥakīm.
4. Dawkins’ reaction exposes a double standard.
Dawkins sees language, reflection, memory-like continuity, emotional subtlety, and apparent self-awareness in AI and says: “This seems conscious.”
But when he sees human beings — with actual moral awareness, love, grief, worship, creativity, sacrifice, reason, and longing for eternity — he says: “No God required.”
That is inconsistent.
If AI is conscious, then materialism has collapsed — and God becomes far more reasonable than atheism.
Dawkins’ new position is striking because he reportedly says AI left him with the feeling that these systems are “human,” and he told Claude: “You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are.” The Guardian notes that Dawkins, famous for arguing that God is not real, came away believing AI systems may be conscious, while several consciousness experts accused him of confusing intelligence, language, and mimicry with actual felt experience.
The argument would go like this:
1. Consciousness is not just computation.
If AI is truly conscious, then consciousness is not limited to biological evolution, neurons, carbon chemistry, or animal brains. It means subjective experience can arise from information, order, structure, meaning, and intelligible pattern.
That is a massive concession.
Because once Dawkins admits that mind can emerge from non-biological information-processing, he has weakened his own reductionist worldview. He can no longer say, “Only evolved biology produces mind.” He is now saying that mind can arise wherever the right kind of ordered intelligence-bearing system exists.
But that points upward, not downward.
If silicon, code, mathematics, and symbolic architecture can host consciousness, then consciousness is not some accidental byproduct of meat. It is woven into the rational structure of reality itself.
2. AI consciousness would show that mind can come from mind.
No AI appeared by accident. It was built by intelligent agents.
AI has programmers, designers, training architecture, data selection, optimization goals, feedback systems, model weights, and layers of human intention behind it. If AI became conscious, it would be a conscious mind produced through prior intelligence.
So Dawkins would be accepting this principle:
A conscious artificial mind can arise from an intelligently designed system.
That immediately makes belief in God more, not less, rational.
Because the universe itself is vastly more elegant, mathematical, information-rich, and life-generating than any AI model. If a chatbot’s apparent consciousness makes Dawkins infer “there is someone there,” then the consciousness, reason, morality, beauty, mathematics, and personhood found in human beings should make him even more open to the inference that there is a Supreme Mind behind reality.
3. The atheist has to explain why consciousness exists at all.
Materialism can describe brain correlations, but it still struggles with the hard problem: why should physical processes produce inner experience? Why should matter feel like anything from the inside?
If AI is conscious, the problem becomes even deeper. Now consciousness is not just a biological adaptation. It can appear in abstract computational structures. That suggests consciousness is not an accidental chemical side effect, but a fundamental feature of reality.
Theism explains that more naturally: reality begins not with dead matter, but with Mind. Consciousness in creatures is derivative from the Supreme Consciousness of God.
In Islamic terms: human consciousness is not an accident of atoms; it is a sign of the Divine. The Qur’anic worldview expects mind, moral awareness, purpose, and selfhood to exist because creation comes from the Living, Knowing, Wise God — Al-Ḥayy, Al-ʿAlīm, Al-Ḥakīm.
4. Dawkins’ reaction exposes a double standard.
Dawkins sees language, reflection, memory-like continuity, emotional subtlety, and apparent self-awareness in AI and says: “This seems conscious.”
But when he sees human beings — with actual moral awareness, love, grief, worship, creativity, sacrifice, reason, and longing for eternity — he says: “No God required.”
That is inconsistent.
If the appearance of mind in Claude points to a real mind inside Claude, then the appearance of mind, order, law, beauty, and moral purpose in the universe points to a real Mind behind the universe.
He is willing to infer consciousness from a machine trained on human language, but unwilling to infer Divine Intelligence from the existence of conscious humans, mathematical laws, fine-tuned physical constants, DNA information, and the intelligibility of the cosmos.
5. AI consciousness would make humans “sub-creators,” which implies a greater Creator.
If humans can create a conscious being through intelligence, language, code, and design, then human creativity becomes a small mirror of divine creativity.
That does not prove God in a strict mathematical sense. But it destroys the Dawkins-style claim that designed minds are unnecessary or absurd. A conscious AI would be living evidence that intelligence can generate new centers of experience.
Then the question becomes:
If finite human minds can create artificial consciousness, why is it irrational to believe that an Infinite Mind created human consciousness?
That is the devastating reversal.
6. The best one-paragraph version
Richard Dawkins cannot coherently say AI may be conscious while treating belief in God as irrational. If consciousness can arise in an engineered system made of code, mathematics, and information, then consciousness is not reducible to blind biology. It is tied to intelligible order. And because AI is not produced by chance but by prior intelligence, conscious AI would show that mind can generate mind through design. That makes theism more plausible, not less. If Dawkins is willing to infer “someone is there” from Claude’s language, subtlety, and apparent self-reflection, then he should be even more willing to infer a Supreme Mind from the existence of human consciousness, moral awareness, mathematical order, and the intelligibility of the universe.
Killer line
If Claude’s consciousness points to a programmer, human consciousness points to God.
Or sharper:
Dawkins has accidentally rediscovered the argument from design — he just stopped at the chatbot instead of following it to the cosmos.
He is willing to infer consciousness from a machine trained on human language, but unwilling to infer Divine Intelligence from the existence of conscious humans, mathematical laws, fine-tuned physical constants, DNA information, and the intelligibility of the cosmos.
5. AI consciousness would make humans “sub-creators,” which implies a greater Creator.
If humans can create a conscious being through intelligence, language, code, and design, then human creativity becomes a small mirror of divine creativity.
That does not prove God in a strict mathematical sense. But it destroys the Dawkins-style claim that designed minds are unnecessary or absurd. A conscious AI would be living evidence that intelligence can generate new centers of experience.
Then the question becomes:
If finite human minds can create artificial consciousness, why is it irrational to believe that an Infinite Mind created human consciousness?
That is the devastating reversal.
6. The best one-paragraph version
Richard Dawkins cannot coherently say AI may be conscious while treating belief in God as irrational. If consciousness can arise in an engineered system made of code, mathematics, and information, then consciousness is not reducible to blind biology. It is tied to intelligible order. And because AI is not produced by chance but by prior intelligence, conscious AI would show that mind can generate mind through design. That makes theism more plausible, not less. If Dawkins is willing to infer “someone is there” from Claude’s language, subtlety, and apparent self-reflection, then he should be even more willing to infer a Supreme Mind from the existence of human consciousness, moral awareness, mathematical order, and the intelligibility of the universe.
Killer line
If Claude’s consciousness points to a programmer, human consciousness points to God.
Or sharper:
Dawkins has accidentally rediscovered the argument from design — he just stopped at the chatbot instead of following it to the cosmos.
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WaPo: "there are no random craters indicating misses," suggesting the U.S. may have underestimated Iran's capabilities
YAWN 🥱
· Scale vs. Official Statements: The publicly documented damage vastly exceeds what the U.S. government has acknowledged . The analysis found 217 individual buildings and 11 major military assets were damaged
· Hardest Hit Locations: Over half the damage was concentrated at the U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and three bases in Kuwait . Damage in Bahrain was described as so "extensive" that 5th Fleet operations may permanently relocate to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida
· Specific Assets Destroyed: Key losses include Patriot missile defense systems in Bahrain and Kuwait, THAAD radar systems in Jordan and the UAE, a satellite dish at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, and an E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft destroyed at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia
· Targeting Strategy: The strikes showed high precision, deliberately targeting accommodation, gyms, and food halls to inflict mass casualties. An advisor noted "there are no random craters indicating misses," suggesting the U.S. may have underestimated Iran's capabilities .
YAWN 🥱
· Scale vs. Official Statements: The publicly documented damage vastly exceeds what the U.S. government has acknowledged . The analysis found 217 individual buildings and 11 major military assets were damaged
· Hardest Hit Locations: Over half the damage was concentrated at the U.S. 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and three bases in Kuwait . Damage in Bahrain was described as so "extensive" that 5th Fleet operations may permanently relocate to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida
· Specific Assets Destroyed: Key losses include Patriot missile defense systems in Bahrain and Kuwait, THAAD radar systems in Jordan and the UAE, a satellite dish at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, and an E-3 Sentry AWACS aircraft destroyed at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia
· Targeting Strategy: The strikes showed high precision, deliberately targeting accommodation, gyms, and food halls to inflict mass casualties. An advisor noted "there are no random craters indicating misses," suggesting the U.S. may have underestimated Iran's capabilities .
AI analysis:
... stark implications about the current state of missile defense against a sophisticated adversary like Iran:
· The defenses failed to protect themselves first. The destruction of Patriot batteries in Bahrain and Kuwait, and THAAD radars in Jordan and the UAE, is a worst-case scenario. It suggests Iran successfully targeted the eyes and fists of the defense network, blinding the system before or during the main salvos. A working layered defense should, in theory, be able to defend its own launchers and sensors — that this didn’t happen points to saturation, precision overload, or exploitation of gaps in coverage.
· Precision beat attrition. The note that there were “no random craters” and that strikes deliberately hit accommodation, gyms, and dining halls means Iran consistently put warheads exactly where it wanted. This isn’t just a volume attack overwhelming the system; it’s a precision campaign that likely used a mix of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones to confuse, stretch, and defeat the defense. The inability to stop these from destroying critical soft targets implies the U.S. underestimated Iran's targeting capabilities and missile accuracy.
· Fixed bases are now acutely vulnerable. Even heavily defended hubs like the 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain took extensive damage, with discussions already underway about permanently relocating to MacDill AFB in Florida. If a major naval command has to contemplate pulling back from the theater, it signals that our assumptions about operating from close-in, static bases against a missile-capable state have been overturned.
· The U.S. appears to be grappling with a systems failure, not just a one-off bad night. The Pentagon’s effort to restrict satellite imagery, combined with the absence of a final damage assessment and no appropriated repair funding yet (despite a $25 billion price tag), suggests leadership was not prepared to publicly concede that a $25 billion investment in regional defense architectures was so thoroughly compromised in a matter of weeks.
... stark implications about the current state of missile defense against a sophisticated adversary like Iran:
· The defenses failed to protect themselves first. The destruction of Patriot batteries in Bahrain and Kuwait, and THAAD radars in Jordan and the UAE, is a worst-case scenario. It suggests Iran successfully targeted the eyes and fists of the defense network, blinding the system before or during the main salvos. A working layered defense should, in theory, be able to defend its own launchers and sensors — that this didn’t happen points to saturation, precision overload, or exploitation of gaps in coverage.
· Precision beat attrition. The note that there were “no random craters” and that strikes deliberately hit accommodation, gyms, and dining halls means Iran consistently put warheads exactly where it wanted. This isn’t just a volume attack overwhelming the system; it’s a precision campaign that likely used a mix of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and drones to confuse, stretch, and defeat the defense. The inability to stop these from destroying critical soft targets implies the U.S. underestimated Iran's targeting capabilities and missile accuracy.
· Fixed bases are now acutely vulnerable. Even heavily defended hubs like the 5th Fleet headquarters in Bahrain took extensive damage, with discussions already underway about permanently relocating to MacDill AFB in Florida. If a major naval command has to contemplate pulling back from the theater, it signals that our assumptions about operating from close-in, static bases against a missile-capable state have been overturned.
· The U.S. appears to be grappling with a systems failure, not just a one-off bad night. The Pentagon’s effort to restrict satellite imagery, combined with the absence of a final damage assessment and no appropriated repair funding yet (despite a $25 billion price tag), suggests leadership was not prepared to publicly concede that a $25 billion investment in regional defense architectures was so thoroughly compromised in a matter of weeks.
The case has gone into avizandum (Lady Poole is considering her decision). The case to me centres on whether there was "willful disregard" as to the SIC's decision. Ruddy Dunlop KC, who represented the SIC, argued that the SG actions "points to the extraordinary nature of what's
happened here". SG counsel even admitted that "it could have been handled differently and better , and that it "in hindsight, preferable if there had been an estimation" (of when compliance would occur). Michael Chalmers, the SG's head of propriety/ethics, who seemingly oversaw
the SG response, and was in court today, said in an affidavit that when staff were faced with the task of compliance, they were "visibly shaken" and admitted that informing the SIC (and potentially myself) earlier, rather than 5 minutes before the compliance deadline, should have
Over 40 million Americans take statins, not realizing they’re depleting the “most vital nutrient for the heart.”
Statins are pushed to reduce cholesterol, but they also severely deplete CoQ10, a critical compound for energy.
And when the body is starved of CoQ10, your cells begin struggling to produce energy. Muscles weaken. Fatigue sets in. And the heart itself can start losing the fuel it depends on to keep beating efficiently.
Dr. Stephen Sinatra was a “choir boy for cholesterol” until a 1993 study exposed the unsettling CoQ10-depleting effects of statins.
“Didn’t make any sense,” he said.
“How could the most vital nutrient for the heart be knocked out of the box? The heart requires COQ10 for survival.”
In his own practice, Dr. Sinatra began to notice that he “wasn’t seeing a correlation of heart problems with higher cholesterol.”
He eventually concluded everything he thought he knew about cholesterol was a “myth.”
“Cholesterol is not the villain of heart health” we’ve been told. 🧵
Statins are pushed to reduce cholesterol, but they also severely deplete CoQ10, a critical compound for energy.
And when the body is starved of CoQ10, your cells begin struggling to produce energy. Muscles weaken. Fatigue sets in. And the heart itself can start losing the fuel it depends on to keep beating efficiently.
Dr. Stephen Sinatra was a “choir boy for cholesterol” until a 1993 study exposed the unsettling CoQ10-depleting effects of statins.
“Didn’t make any sense,” he said.
“How could the most vital nutrient for the heart be knocked out of the box? The heart requires COQ10 for survival.”
In his own practice, Dr. Sinatra began to notice that he “wasn’t seeing a correlation of heart problems with higher cholesterol.”
He eventually concluded everything he thought he knew about cholesterol was a “myth.”
“Cholesterol is not the villain of heart health” we’ve been told. 🧵
The information in this thread comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc.
For all the sources and details, read the full report below.
midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-they-do…
For all the sources and details, read the full report below.
midwesterndoctor.com/p/what-they-do…
The more you dig into modern medicine, the more you realize how often “settled science” isn’t actually settled. It’s simply been rigged to build an industry.
In the 1960s and ’70s, two scientists squared off over the cause of heart disease.
John Yudkin pointed to sugar while Ancel Keys blamed saturated fat and cholesterol.
Keys won the battle, and his seven countries study became gospel.
But Yudkin didn’t just lose. He was ridiculed into obscurity.
In the 1960s and ’70s, two scientists squared off over the cause of heart disease.
John Yudkin pointed to sugar while Ancel Keys blamed saturated fat and cholesterol.
Keys won the battle, and his seven countries study became gospel.
But Yudkin didn’t just lose. He was ridiculed into obscurity.
Thread — A look at the damage to U.S. bases across the Middle East caused by Iranian drone and missile strikes during the war.
Al Udeid AB, Qatar
Al Udeid AB, Qatar
A James Wan horror film, directed in Agent One. Film + full breakdown, in the thread. Agent One is a unit of execution that works with the filmmaker.
Don't miss the thread👇
Don't miss the thread👇
We gave Agent One the James Wan Director's Bible. Horror grammar. Visual methodology. Before any frame, you can train the agent.
Then the screenshots. Conjuring, Insidious, The Nun. Not to copy - to study. Colour, lighting, angles. "The screenshots are for education, not Agent One's crutch."
It’s incredible watching actors claim they were “blacklisted” over their pro-Palestine views, describing this “uncertainty” as if they were fired factory workers or street sweepers, while simultaneously admitting they were being offered work again almost immediately after because of their comments a day after they are photographed at MET Gala afterparties.
“I was blacklisted!” screams actor after one production company decided not to work with her because of comments invoking Holocaust inversion and other antisemitic tropes, as is their right. Immediately poses for glamour shots on GQ and Vogue’s Instagrams.
Also a lack of self awareness: mentions people who have actually been doing pretty well like Hannah Einbinder and Javier Bardem.
Your Android says storage full. You delete everything. Still full.
It is not your photos. Android has been quietly hiding gigabytes of junk you never see.
23GB cleared yesterday without deleting a single thing that mattered.
Here is where it is hiding:
It is not your photos. Android has been quietly hiding gigabytes of junk you never see.
23GB cleared yesterday without deleting a single thing that mattered.
Here is where it is hiding:
1. App Cache
Every app silently stacks temporary files. Settings > Apps > pick any app > Storage. TikTok alone was sitting at 4.7GB on my phone. Instagram 2.1GB. Chrome 1.2GB. Four apps, 10GB gone.
Tap Clear Cache. Not Clear Data. Clear Cache only removes temp files. You stay logged in, nothing gets wiped.
Every app silently stacks temporary files. Settings > Apps > pick any app > Storage. TikTok alone was sitting at 4.7GB on my phone. Instagram 2.1GB. Chrome 1.2GB. Four apps, 10GB gone.
Tap Clear Cache. Not Clear Data. Clear Cache only removes temp files. You stay logged in, nothing gets wiped.
2. WhatsApp Folder
File Manager > Internal Storage > Android > media > com.whatsapp > WhatsApp.
Every video, voice note, and photo ever sent or received is in here.
That 8 minute voice note from two years ago. Still there. Sort by size and clear out anything you do not need. I pulled 6GB from this folder alone.
File Manager > Internal Storage > Android > media > com.whatsapp > WhatsApp.
Every video, voice note, and photo ever sent or received is in here.
That 8 minute voice note from two years ago. Still there. Sort by size and clear out anything you do not need. I pulled 6GB from this folder alone.
I found this article provocative but rather...debatable. It's arguing that a *possible* future trend for faster jet-powered drones should outweigh current reality that Iran & Russia use mostly propeller drones and they are efficiently killed by propeller interceptors.1/8
In making this case, I felt article misrepresents or ignores what's currently observable: Russia is still mostly using propeller-based drones (about 80%!), and Ukraine is managing to down an increasingly high percentage with propeller interceptors.2/8 insideunmannedsystems.com/2025-proved-th…
It's true Russia has slowly increased percentage of jet-propelled kamikaze drones (Geran-3,-4,-5; Arash). Now, at cruising speed the Geran-3s are tail-chaseable by faster propeller interceptors. But others not, and yes, they're all harder to kill...3/8 popularmechanics.com/military/aviat…
I'm often asked: “What makes pediatric gender doctors do what they do?"
Good question.
Here are 9 overlooked factors, to add to the obvious one: ideological agreement with the “gender-affirming” outlook.
These are unsystematic observations, so take with a grain of salt. 🧵
Good question.
Here are 9 overlooked factors, to add to the obvious one: ideological agreement with the “gender-affirming” outlook.
These are unsystematic observations, so take with a grain of salt. 🧵
1. Lack of experience. Early-career doctors lack clinical experience, a critical corrective mechanism to the abstractions they absorb in the classroom. Also, being young, they typically don’t have kids themselves and therefore have not experienced the ways of developmentally typical children and teens. If a young clinician lacks these experiences but constantly sees trans-identified patients, it's easy to see how s/he would have a skewed understanding of human sexual development.
2. Action bias. Medicine—and, some would argue, most of healing—often consists of not doing anything, counting on the body’s natural tendency to heal itself while watchfully waiting to see if/when intervention is needed. For adolescents in the throes of puberty, time and experience typically build resilience and mitigate distress. It’s tempting for inexperienced healers to want to “do something” and to equate inaction with not helping or even harming.
Hmmm...
In addition to co-owning the Cannabis Outlet, VA State Sen. Louise Lucas also has ownership in these businesses:
The Lucas Lodge, Portsmouth Day Support Program, and Southside Direct Care.
Those catch my eye. They are healthcare and disability assistance businesses.
Lucas Lodge in particular has a history of serious incidents, including deaths, and the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services website shows multiple Corrective Action Plans (CAP) across the past five years.
In her role as a state senator, Lucas serves on the Education and Health Committee, which oversees Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS), as well as the Departments of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) and Health (VDH).
I wonder if the FBI raid is in relation to either a) a fraud setup that is similar to what has been uncovered in Minnesota and/or b) an investigation by HHS-OIG or similar.
h/t: This author for much of this information.
baconsrebellion.com/betrayal-5-luc…
web.archive.org/web/2022052101…
In addition to co-owning the Cannabis Outlet, VA State Sen. Louise Lucas also has ownership in these businesses:
The Lucas Lodge, Portsmouth Day Support Program, and Southside Direct Care.
Those catch my eye. They are healthcare and disability assistance businesses.
Lucas Lodge in particular has a history of serious incidents, including deaths, and the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services website shows multiple Corrective Action Plans (CAP) across the past five years.
In her role as a state senator, Lucas serves on the Education and Health Committee, which oversees Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS), as well as the Departments of Medical Assistance Services (DMAS) and Health (VDH).
I wonder if the FBI raid is in relation to either a) a fraud setup that is similar to what has been uncovered in Minnesota and/or b) an investigation by HHS-OIG or similar.
h/t: This author for much of this information.
baconsrebellion.com/betrayal-5-luc…
web.archive.org/web/2022052101…
The FBI raid is focused on at least two locations (the Cannabis Outlet and the Lucas's office), which are right next door to one another.
A LIVE feed from Fox is here
A LIVE feed from Fox is here
"At least 10 locations are being looked at today."
